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Tual joy comes to the body from the mind it suffers no Grégoire Palamas et la mystiue PDFEPUBdiminution by this communion with the body but rather transfigures the body spiritualizing it rejecting all evil desires of the flesh it no longer weighs down the soul but rises up with it the whole man becoming spirit as it is written 'He who is born of the Spirit is spirit' JohnTriadsThis ric. At first glance the title may seem a bit misleading as only about a third of the work concerns itself directly with Palamas and his theological work It is however appropriate to view his contributions which are not really innovations in the much longer contexts of Eastern Orthodox Hesychasm stillness as well as the long established sacramental life of the Church Hence the book begins with Evagrius and continues through John of Kronstadt An excellent and lucidly written introduction to Hesychasm
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Saint Grégoire Palamas et la mystiue orthodoxeSt Gregory Palamas a fourteenth century Byzantine Palamas et Epub #217 saint and Church Father incorporated traditional Eastern monastic spirituality into Saint Grégoire PDFEPUBa comprehensive theological vision His understanding of hesychasm the monastic movement centered on solitude and unceasing prayer is Grégoire Palamas et PDF #198 grounded in an incarnational theology When spiri. This book gives a clear and concise presentation of the Hesychastic tradition of the Orthodox Church and a short biography of St Gregory Palamas who was a central figure in its formation in the 14th century Greece It's a good introduction but based on the title I was hoping to read about St Gregory himself and maybe get a detailed analysis of his personal contribution to the tradition and less about his predecessors and successors The biographical content of the book is a little bit on the thin side